Contact Information
Email: gshaker@uwaterloo.ca
Location: EIT 3123
Adjunct Associate Professor | Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Prof. George Shaker is an adjunct associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo. He also oversees wireless activities in the sensors and devices lab at the UW-Schlegel Research Institute for Aging. Previously, he was with Research in Motion (BlackBerry). He was also with Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been the Principal Scientist and Head of Research at Spark Technology Labs (STL), since its founding in 2011. In 2017, George was selected by the office of the president of NSERC among a group of ten Canadian professors to discuss Canadian research advancement in the Internet of Things (IoT) area at the special NSERC-NRC-MOST meeting in Ottawa. In addition, prof. Shaker serves on the organizational committee of the French-Canadian Bioengineering School.
With more than fifteen years of industrial experience in technology, and about eight years as an adjunct faculty member leading projects related to the application of wireless sensor systems for healthcare, automotives, and unmanned aerial vehicles, Prof. Shaker has many design contributions in commercial products available from startups and established companies alike. A sample list includes: COM DEV \\, Blackberry, Google, Spark Tech Labs, Bionym, Lyngsoe Systems, ON Semiconductors, Ecobee, Medella Health, NERV Technologies, Novella, Thalmic Labs (North), General Dynamics Land Systems, and Omron Technologies.
Selected Publications:
- Murdoch, David and Ye, Eric and Shaker, George and Melek, William, Modelling of Terrain Surfaces Using Aerial Radar Mapping, Journal of Computational Vision and Imaging Systems, 3, 2018
- Lee, D and Melek, W and Shaker, G, Investigation of wrapped effects on bow-tie antenna with and without resistive loading for pulsed radar applications, Electronics Letters, 7, 2018
- Smith, Karly A and Csech, Clment and Murdoch, David and Shaker, George, Gesture recognition using mm-wave sensor for human-car interface, IEEE Sensors Letters, 1, 2018